Residents across five towns in Vermont voted to cut ties with Israeli apartheid making the state the first in the country where municipalities have voted to cut economic ties with Israel.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders refuses to even meet with constituents demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, and many have given up on him. “How many thousands of more lives lost will it require for you to take a stand?”
Three Palestinian students were shot and injured in Burlington, Vermont in an apparent hate crime. The suspect remains at large.
Why did progressive Rep. Becca Balint go to Israel on a trip sponsored by AIPAC? “I was on this trip with people who absolutely disagree with me,” she says. And left the trip off social media. Still!
Pro-Israel groups claim that recent incidents at the University of Vermont constitute antisemitism because for some Jewish students, “Zionism is integral to their Jewish ethnic identity.”
The Episcopal Church of Vermont stood up loudly against Israel’s U.S.-backed oppression of the Palestinians, Nov. 4, as its annual convention, condemning by an 89-25 majority what it said are the Jewish State’s apartheid policies. Similar resolutions will soon be considered by other Episcopal dicoeses.
This past Monday was supposed to be the day of the historic BDS vote in Burlington, VT, but pro-Israel groups launched a coordinated effort to squash the resolution shortly before it came up.
Vermont-based farmworker rights organization Migrant Justice rejects a donation of hand sanitizer from the Israeli Consulate: “We will not be a party to your government’s attempted ‘sanitization’ of oppression.”
Members of Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel leafleted hundreds of passers-by in front…